Recent content by Goodoldchevy

Harbor freight has a good cheap inspection camera that is invaluable for checking bad places, pick you up one and clean the engine real good with some gunk and then check it with the camera, they are pretty nice you can even get into the cylinders via the spark plug holes. A lot of the Youtube...

No, that one is internal under the oil pan and causes lifter ticking and oil starvation to vital parts of the engine. You take the oil pan off and it seals the oil pickup tube to the oil pump. It looks difficult, but really is not if you take your time, most of the Tahoe is really well...

Yes, I have a 2000 Silverado with over 400k as well and it will still boil the tires off, just a little rear main leak, only changed the thermostat on that one, oh and a axle seal. Just keep a eye on the oil pressure and if it gets low change the o-ring on the oil pickup, they crack and act...

+1 on the O-ring and I'm have a sneaking suspicion it could eat your rings if left too long...don't ask...LOL

Should be ok, you can google temperature/pressure tables...it can vary by a bit...up or down...Fords are really low compared to our Tahoes.

Hopefully, I can save you some time I had the same thing and after throwing a bunch of money at it, it turned out to be low compression. Do yourself a favor and start with a compression check, before anything. My mileage was at 208K which I considered low for a LS...